Camille van Camp
Camille van Camp (born June 3, 1834 in Tongeren , † November 16, 1891 in Montreux ) was a Belgian portrait and landscape painter as well as a watercolorist and etcher.
Van Camp studied from 1848 to 1853 at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles with François-Joseph Navez , Louis Gallait and Louis Huard.
In 1857 van Camp came to Florence , where he copied old masterpieces in the Uffizi . In 1859 he copied the works of old masters in the Louvre in Paris .
In 1863 Camille van Camp and his friend Hippolyte Boulenger came to Tervuren , which they called the “Belgian Barbizon ”. They stayed at the “In den Vos” inn and planned to found an artists' colony in Tervuren .
Van Camp was a founding member of the Société libre des Beaux-Arts in 1868. He published art reviews in "L'Art libre".
Van Camp illustrated the first edition of Charles De Coster's “Tijl Uilenspiegel”.
literature
- Van Camp, Camille . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940.
- Van Camp, Camille in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (online)
Web links
- Camille van Camp. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Camp, Camille van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian portrait and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tongeren |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1891 |
| Place of death | Montreux |